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The Netherlands approach for generating climate change scenarios

The Netherlands approach for generating climate change scenarios. Bart van den Hurk, KNMI and many others. Climate change in observations. Temperature rise since 1956 accelerating to 0.13  0.03 K/10yrs Sea level rise since 1993 accelerating to 3.1  0.7 mm/yr Snow cover/glacier

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The Netherlands approach for generating climate change scenarios

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  1. The Netherlands approach for generating climate change scenarios Bart van den Hurk, KNMI and many others New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  2. Climate change in observations Temperature rise since 1956 accelerating to 0.13  0.03 K/10yrs Sea level rise since 1993 accelerating to 3.1  0.7 mm/yr Snow cover/glacier length decreasing New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios IPCC, 2007

  3. Model reconstructions Antropogenic contribution needed to explain observed changes IPCC, 2007 New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  4. Model projections of future global climate • Models are imperfect • Future greenhouse gas concentrations are unknown • Coordinated effort: • define set of emission scenarios • calculate concentration evolution • use this to make projections with range of GCMs • AR4: Large (~25) nr of GCMs available for 1900 – 2200 (http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/) New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  5. Emission scenario’s (SRES) CO2 N2O SO2 CH4 New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  6. Model projections (global mean temperature) New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios IPCC, 2007

  7. Projections mean precipitation (2050/1990) with the MPI model A2 A1B +25% Winter Summer -50% New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  8. Projections mean precipitation (2050/1990) with the MPI model A2 A1B +25% Winter Mean change Winter change  +5 – +10% Summer change  -10 – -15% Difference scenarios A2 a bit stronger in winter A1B a bit stronger in summer Gradient N-S gradient in winter SE-NW gradient in summer Resolution Resolution very coarse (>150 km) Extremes Only seasonal mean! No info on extremes or nr of wet days. Summer -50% New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  9. Climate change involves many aspects • Future temperature change varies between regions • Mean wind patterns may also change! Mean temperature change SRES A2 scenario 2025 2100 IPCC, 2007 New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  10. Atmospheric circulation change Sea level pressure difference from 2 different GCMs Van Ulden and Van Oldenborgh, 2006 New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  11. The influence from circulation change • Change of precipitation annual cycle in Rhine area from multiple regional climate model simulations • Two different GCM’s ECHAM4/OPYC (more Atlantic advection in winter, less in summer) HadAM3H (small changes in circulation statistics) New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  12. The production of the KNMI’06 scenarios New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  13. Climate change in the Netherlands • Climate change in the Netherlands depends on • global temperature rise • change in local wind regime New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  14. The production of the KNMI’06 scenarios New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  15. Regional climate change: downscaling • GCM-grid box too coarse Global model Regional model New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  16. Regional Climate Modelling (RCM) • High resolution GCM (50 – 20 km) • Lateral boundary conditions from reanalysis (present-day climate conditions) or GCM runs (scenario runs) • multi-level • temporal frequency dependent on domain • Inner domain free evolving New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  17. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Purpose of downscaling: extra spatial and temporal detail Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  18. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  19. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% ~10 times per summer more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  20. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% ~5 times per summer more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  21. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% ~annual wettest summer day more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  22. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% ~shower exceeded once per 5 yrs more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  23. Precipitation extremes in summer (difference A2 – CTL) Mean; 90%; 95%; 99%; 99.5%; 99.9% ~shower exceeded once per 10 yrs more less Danish Met. Institute New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  24. The KNMI’06 climate scenarios: change in 2050 relative to 1990 New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  25. Some examples average temperature coldest winter day per year Winter With circulation change the coldest and warmest temperature change more than mean average temperature warmest summer day per year Summer New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  26. Some examples Nr of wet days strongly dependent on circulation change Summer number of wet days New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  27. General picture • Extreme temperature change is stronger than mean, especially when circulation also changes • When circulation changes number of precipitation days is strongly reduced in summer, causing a reduction of mean summertime precipitation • In winter mean precipitation increases (dependent on circulation) • Extreme precipitation increases both in summer and winter • Sea level rise is slightly smaller than in TAR • 1/yr Wind slightly increases (but not significantly) New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  28. The production of the KNMI’06 scenarios New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  29. Return time of 2003 drought New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  30. Tailored climate scenarios • Specific use in water management requires “tailoring” • Dutch Programme Climate Changes Spatial Planning co-funded a “tailoring project” • Examples (not all from this project) • High resolution time series of precipitation • Ground water tables in the Netherlands • Rhine discharge • Closure of Maasland barrier New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  31. Assessment of impact of KNMI’06 scenarios on Rhine discharge Old WB21 scenarios New KNMI’06 scenarios New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  32. Assessment of impact of KNMI’06 scenarios on Rhine discharge old +1 and +2 new +1 and +2 (no circ) New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  33. Assessment of impact of KNMI’06 scenarios on Rhine discharge old +1 and +2 new +1 and +2 (no circ) new +1 and +2 (with circ) New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  34. Groundwater tables in the Netherlands • Current practice: detailed hydrological model is used to calculate high resolution ground water balance • Climate change assessment needs long records: expensive! • To enable affordable climate change assessment: can one construct a single reference year that reproduces proper reference climatological ground water product? New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  35. Change in ground water table the Netherlands • Aim: first assessment of effect of W+ scenario on ground water table in various stages of the growing season • Tailoring: • production of location specific meteo (applied linearly in this example) • running high resolution ground water model Lowest water table during growing season: generally drier Start of growing season: generally wetter courtesy Timo Kroon, Franziska Keller ea New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  36. Remarks on the scenarios Tailoring Process of tailoring is important for application in practice. Close multi-disciplinary cooperation is required Generic scenarios Designed to span a wide range of possible climate change, suitable for many applications Dry summers Particularly dry summer conditions gain additional attention in Dutch climate adaptation policy New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  37. And the real world:The summer of 2006 • July was anomalously warm and dry • Precipitation August 2006 Sea surface temperature normal Aug 2006 courtesy Geert Lenderink Erik van Meijgaard New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  38. Precipitation gradient • Heavy precipitation limited to coastal zone run with normal SST run with true Aug’06 SST may lead to refined climate scenarios courtesy Geert Lenderink Erik van Meijgaard New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  39. Spring and summer 2007 • April was extremely dry and warm • Summer (June-July-August) very wet and cool Potential evaporation minus precipitation 5% driest years record (1976) median 2007 New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

  40. Conclusions • Regional variability increases • at daily time scale (changes of extremes are stronger than changes of means) • within a season (nr of wet days changes, evidence for rapid transition of persistent anomalous episodes) • between years (scenarios differ widely but none can be excluded) • Climate change scenarios will continue to develop • present state of the art is different from yesterday’s New climate scenarios for the Netherlands – www.knmi.nl/climatescenarios

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